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#2315 Fix: Added optional ConfigMap volume mount to allow external flow YAML override without image rebuild. - #2593
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WalkthroughThe Helm deployment adds an optional ChangesEsignet flow configuration
Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The optional flow override can prevent Esignet pods from starting when the ConfigMap or file is absent, rather than falling back to the image-provided flow. The mount should be made conditional before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@helm/esignet/templates/deployment.yaml`:
- Around line 197-200: Make the flow-config resources conditional on
.Values.flowConfig.enabled: wrap both the flow-config-volume volumeMount and the
corresponding flow-config-volume definition, preserving the existing mount
settings when enabled.
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| - name: flow-config-volume | ||
| mountPath: /home/mosip/data/flows/flow-esignet.yaml | ||
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site:kubernetes.io/docs ConfigMap volume optional true subPath missing file container startup
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In Kubernetes, when using subPath to mount a specific file from a ConfigMap volume, the behavior regarding missing files depends on the optional configuration [1][2]. If a ConfigMap or a specific key within it is missing, the default behavior is that the Pod will fail to start because Kubernetes cannot satisfy the volume mount requirement [1][3]. To prevent this failure, you must explicitly mark the ConfigMap reference as optional: true in the Pod specification [1][4]. When optional: true is set: - If the entire ConfigMap does not exist, the volume will be created as an empty directory [1][4]. - If the ConfigMap exists but the specific key referenced via subPath (or mapped via items) is missing, the file will simply not be present at the mount point [1][4]. It is important to note that when using subPath, the mounted file will not receive updates if the underlying ConfigMap is modified [1][5][6]. This is a fundamental limitation of the subPath mechanism in Kubernetes, which provides a single snapshot of the file at the time of container creation rather than the symbolic link updates provided by standard volume mounts [5]. Therefore, if the file is missing at startup because the key was absent in the ConfigMap, it will not appear later even if the key is added to the ConfigMap [1]. In summary, marking the volume as optional: true allows the container to start even if the specified ConfigMap or key is missing, but you must ensure your application code is robust enough to handle the potential absence of the required configuration file [1][4].
Citations:
- 1: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/
- 2: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/core/pod-v1/
- 3: https://v1-34.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/
- 4: https://v1-36.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/
- 5: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/
- 6: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap/
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site:kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap subPath optional ConfigMap missing subPath
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In Kubernetes, if you are using subPath to mount a specific key from a ConfigMap and that key is missing, the behavior depends on whether the ConfigMap reference is marked as optional [1][2]. If you mark the ConfigMap as optional: true in your Pod specification, Kubernetes allows the Pod to start even if the ConfigMap itself or the referenced key does not exist [1][3]. Specifically, if the ConfigMap exists but the referenced key is missing, the path specified by the subPath mount will be absent beneath the mount point [1][4]. Without setting optional: true, referencing a non-existent ConfigMap or a missing key within an existing ConfigMap will cause the Pod to fail to start [1][5]. It is important to note that when using subPath to mount ConfigMap data, the mounted file will not receive updates if the original ConfigMap is modified [1][2]. Kubernetes will not automatically update the file content within the container [1].
Citations:
- 1: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/
- 2: https://v1-36.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/
- 3: https://v1-34.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/
- 4: https://v1-35.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/
- 5: https://v1-33.docs.kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/
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Kubernetes kubelet subPath optional ConfigMap missing file mount failed source code
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In Kubernetes, when a ConfigMap is marked as optional: true but the subPath key is missing, the kubelet does not error out. Instead, it typically creates an empty directory at the mount point [1][2]. This is a long-standing behavior where the subPath mounting mechanism treats the missing key differently than the volume-level optional flag might imply [1][2]. Technical Details and Known Issues: 1. Behavior with Missing Keys: When using subPath, if the referenced key does not exist in the ConfigMap, the kubelet creates an empty directory rather than failing or mounting nothing [1][2]. This can cause application crashes if the software expects a file and encounters a directory instead [1]. 2. Error Handling: Because this behavior occurs during the container's volume setup phase, it often results in the pod starting successfully, leading to "silent" failures where the application fails to find the expected file inside the mounted directory [2]. There is currently no native mechanism to force a failure in this specific scenario [2]. 3. Transient Failures: If a ConfigMap is modified (e.g., patched) between the time a pod is created and the time a container starts, transient errors such as "no such file or directory: unknown" can occur [3]. This happens because subPath mounts are bind-mounted at container startup and do not dynamically track changes to the underlying source object [4][5][6]. 4. Maintenance and Updates: Using subPath with ConfigMaps prevents those files from receiving automatic updates [4][5][7]. When the ConfigMap changes, the file mounted via subPath remains at the old inode/content [5]. If an update is required, the best practice is to mount the ConfigMap as a directory and reference the file directly, or use an initContainer to symlink the file if specific path requirements exist [8][4][5]. 5. Related Source Context: The logic governing this behavior resides within the kubelet's volume management code, specifically within the subpath and volume mount handlers (e.g., pkg/kubelet/volumemanager and pkg/volume/util) [8][2][9]. The complexity arises from how Kubernetes bind-mounts individual files for subPath support, which diverges from the standard volume projection logic [5][10]. For troubleshooting, FailedMount errors usually indicate that the volume source itself (the ConfigMap) is missing or has restricted permissions, while a "not found" error specific to a subPath key indicates a mismatch between the subPath field and the keys defined in the ConfigMap [4]. If you require error-checking for missing keys, you may need to implement application-level checks or use an initContainer to verify the existence of the file before the main container starts [8][4].
Citations:
- 1: GitHub issue 54514 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 2: GitHub issue 126186 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: GitHub issue 127602 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: https://devopsaitoolkit.com/blog/kubernetes-error-failedmount/
- 5: GitHub issue 50345 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: GitHub issue 126112 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 7: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/projected-volumes/
- 8: GitHub issue 61076 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 9: GitHub issue 130999 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 10: GitHub issue 68211 in kubernetes/kubernetes (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Make the flow file mount conditional.
optional: true makes the ConfigMap volume empty when esignet-flow-config or flow-esignet.yaml is absent. The Kubernetes subPath handler then fails to lstat the missing source path, so kubelet can prevent container startup. The image-provided flow file is not used.
Add .Values.flowConfig.enabled and wrap both the volumeMount and flow-config-volume definition.
Suggested fix
+{{- if .Values.flowConfig.enabled }}
- name: flow-config-volume
mountPath: /home/mosip/data/flows/flow-esignet.yaml
subPath: flow-esignet.yaml
readOnly: true
+{{- end }}
+{{- if .Values.flowConfig.enabled }}
- name: flow-config-volume
configMap:
name: esignet-flow-config
items:
- key: flow-esignet.yaml
path: flow-esignet.yaml
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In `@helm/esignet/templates/deployment.yaml` around lines 197 - 200, Make the
flow-config resources conditional on .Values.flowConfig.enabled: wrap both the
flow-config-volume volumeMount and the corresponding flow-config-volume
definition, preserving the existing mount settings when enabled.
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The optional: true on the ConfigMap volume is intentional and sufficient here. With optional: true, when the esignet-flow-config ConfigMap or the flow-esignet.yaml key is absent, Kubernetes silently skips the subPath mount and the pod starts normally using the flow YAML baked into the image — which is the desired fallback behaviour. Wrapping in a flowConfig.enabled guard would require consumers to perform a Helm upgrade in addition to creating the ConfigMap, which adds unnecessary friction and introduces a new failure mode — pod down if enabled: true but ConfigMap not yet created. The optional: true approach keeps the consumer workflow to a single step: create the ConfigMap in Rancher, restart the pod.
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@SajidMannikeri17, I verified this behavior against Kubernetes release branches 1.28 through 1.31.
optional: true omits a missing ConfigMap or key from the projected volume. It does not skip the subPath mount. The kubelet then calls os.Lstat for flow-config-volume/flow-esignet.yaml. That call returns an error when the file is absent. The container does not start, so it cannot use the image-provided flow YAML.
Your single-step workflow is valid when the ConfigMap and flow-esignet.yaml key exist before the Pod restarts. It does not provide a fallback when either is absent.
The mount must be absent from the Pod specification when the ConfigMap is not in use. A Helm value is one way to make that condition explicit.
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